The First Boat People by S G Webb
The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscoring problems with the 'Out of Africa' theory of how modern humans emerged. The variety of routes, strategies and opportunities that could have been used by those first migrants is proposed against the very different regional geography that existed at that time. Steve Webb shows the impact of human entry into Australia on the megafauna using fresh evidence from his work in Central Australia, including a description of palaeoenvironmental conditions existing there during the last two glaciations. He argues for an early human arrival and describes in detail the skeletal evidence for the first Australians. This is a stimulating account for students and researchers in biological anthropology, human evolution and archaeology.-
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Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology
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Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene
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Neanderthals and Modern Humans
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Bioarchaeology
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Macaque Societies
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Primates Face to Face
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Neandertal Skeletal Anatomy
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Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Titis, Sakis and Uacaris
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The Monkeys of Stormy Mountain
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The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis
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Monkeys on the Edge
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The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
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Reproduction and Adaptation
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Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology
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Between Biology and Culture
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Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
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African Genesis
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Simulating Human Origins and Evolution
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Methods in Human Growth Research
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Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates
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Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo
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Human Biologists in the Archives
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Primate and Human Evolution
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Seasonality in Primates
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Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations
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Consanguinity in Context
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The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease
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The Backbone of Europe
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Human Senescence
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Health Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Human Paleobiology
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Fossil Primates
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The Foragers of Point Hope
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Primate Dentition
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Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
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Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
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Variability in Human Fertility
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Biological Aspects of Human Migration
Review of the hardback: 'Steve Webb is an excellent expert of the Australian Biological AnthropologyThe First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia. It traces movements from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas and underscoring problems with the Out of Africa theory of how modern humans emerged. A most interesting book which describes all facets of the topic.' Journal of Comparative Human Biology
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107406476 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107406471 |
| Title | The First Boat People |
| Author | S G Webb |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Biological And Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2012-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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